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Big City Fights in the Pacific ??? - 2/3/2001 1:24:00 PM

M4 Jess Housley

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Looking for a big city fight in the Pacific, I want to design a mega large city fight with the Japs. Any input on the battle to fight? M4

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- 2/3/2001 1:32:00 PM

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The battle for Manila went on almost a month. http://www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/luzon/72-28.htm Scroll down about halfway, to section 11.

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- 2/3/2001 2:20:00 PM

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Battle of Cebu city was fought in the unburned residential sections and the burning industrial section. cf. the memoirs of I.D. Richardson. troopie ------------------ Pamwe Chete

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- 2/4/2001 4:13:00 AM

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Another urban battle from the Pacific was the Sixth Marine Division's clearing of Naha during the Battle of Okinawa.

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- 2/4/2001 6:33:00 AM

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Great suggestions, guys! Took the words right out of my mouth! What a good group we have here! Wild Bill

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- 2/4/2001 10:34:00 AM

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Hi Jess: I would vote for Manila or Singapore although Singapore would have to be less historical to make it interesting but the British delaying action down the pennisula would be fun to consider. If you are looking for a combined arms campaign, (other than the Phillipines in 41/42), I would suggest the Battle for Garapan in Saipan. This battle was one of the few where Japanese used mass armor against Marine units. Of course, Shermans ate them alive but it was a real armored "Banzai" charge by about 30 Japanese tanks. Bruce Semper Fi ------------------ "The most important element in war is man. And there are no tougher men than my China Marines." Major Gen. Archer 'Archy' Vandegrift, 1st Marine Division

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- 2/5/2001 10:51:00 PM

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It didn't happen but if Operation Olympic would have went down, that would have been a hell of a fight. But we dropped the Bomb instead. ------------------ 1stSgt Semper Fi "Steel on Target" Company B 1st Tank Bn

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- 2/6/2001 12:31:00 AM

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Originally posted by 1stSgt USMC: It didn't happen but if Operation Olympic would have went down, that would have been a hell of a fight. But we dropped the Bomb instead.

If I remember correctly, there was a theoretical sceniario in SP1 on Operation Olympic. If memory serves, it was a real bear. My have to dust off my old copy of SP1 and see if it can't be updated. That is of course if 1stSgt will let me off the working parties. ------------------ USMCGrunt -When it absolutely, positively, has to be destroyed overnight.

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